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The Canadian Police Memorial Ride to Remember began in 2000, and covers 640 kilometres (400 mi) from the Ontario Police College in Aylmer, Ontario. The National Peace Officers' Memorial Run to Remember was first held in 2005, starting at the Ontario Police Memorial in Toronto's Queen's Park and covers 460 km (290 mi) over three days. The events ...
Since 1940, [4] the National War Memorial is the site of the national Remembrance Day ceremony, organized every year by the Royal Canadian Legion for 11 November. Along with Canadian war veterans, the ceremony is attended by the governor general, sometimes members of the Canadian royal family, the prime minister, the Silver Cross mother, representatives of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal ...
Each year, band leads the Remembrance Day parade in Ottawa near the National War Memorial, and even provides a lone piper to play Lament during the honors ceremony. It has participated in all RCAF Presentation of Colours ceremonies, whether it be official such as the ceremony in 2017 in Toronto , as well as a symbolic presentation of the old ...
Members of the pipe band (right) parading with other pipe bands through Ottawa, November 2007. It has participated in many of the military and state functions that take place in Ottawa, including leading the marchpast on Wellington Street during the National Remembrance Day Parade. [2] [3] [4]
A Silver Cross Mother (French: Mères décorées de la Croix d’argent) is chosen each year by the Royal Canadian Legion to lay a wreath during the Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on behalf of all mothers who have lost children in the service of their country.
The Ceremonial Guard (CG; French: Garde de cérémonie) is an ad hoc military unit in the Canadian Armed Forces that performs the changing the guard ceremony on Parliament Hill and posts sentries at Rideau Hall, with the National War Memorial being sentried by the National Sentry Program (NSP), which is carried out by different regiments and other units in order of precedence throughout the ...
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (French: Tombe du Soldat Inconnu) is a tomb situated before the National War Memorial in Confederation Square, Ottawa, Ontario.The tomb is dedicated to Canadian service members, and holds the remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier who died in France during the First World War; selected from a Commonwealth War Grave near Vimy, in the vicinity where the ...
2008: Mayor’s proclamation, André M. Levesque Day in the City of Ottawa; 2010: Canadian Armed Forces, Commander Land Force Command Commendation; 2010: The Canadian Forces Medallion for Distinguished Service [41] 2014: Order of St. John, Priory of Canada, Chair’s Commendation; 2014: Medallion, Order of Military Merit Advisory Committee [42]